Newbery Books
This novel's protagonist is C-average student Katie Takeshima [tah-kuh-SHEE-muh]. She vows to improve her grades because her sister Lynn, who dies of lymphoma, wanted her to. The Japanese word for "glittering" is the title of what Newbery winner by Cynthia Kadohata?
KIRA-KIRA
This novel's supporting characters include red-headed Will, Magister Reese, and John and Jennet Dark. The title character, a young girl named Alyce, learns from Jane how to help women give birth safely. Name this winner of the Newbery Medal, written by Karen Cushman.
(THE) MIDWIFE'S APPRENTICE
In this picture book, the narrator remembers a family member's trip from Japan to California. As an adult, that narrator takes the same trip. Identify this biographical book, which earned a Caldecott Medal for Allen Say.
GRANDFATHER'S JOURNEY
This type of poem may emphasize any letter from any part of a word. Typically, it uses the first letters of words to spell out another word or phrase. Give the name of this type of poem.
ACROSTIC POEM
This legendary North American creature is sometimes called a sasquatch. It supposedly lives in the mountains of western Canada and the United States' Pacific Northwest. What is this large, hairy creature named for the size of a certain body part?
BIGFOOT
In this novel, a sitting room houses a silkworm, earthworm, ladybug, spider, centipede, and grasshopper. The title boy meets Cloud-Men as he flies from London to New York in an unconventional structure. A massive piece of fruit carries insects and a 7-year-old in what Roald Dahl [ROO-all DOLL] novel?
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH
In this book, Roscuro [ro-SKYOOR-oh] the rat reunites Miggery Sow with her father, a prisoner in a dungeon. The title animal falls in love with Princess Pea after reading about knights saving princesses. A literate mouse is the hero of what Kate DiCamillo [dee-kuh-MILL-oh] Newbery winner?
(THE) TALE OF DESPEREAUX [DES-puh-row]
In this novel the title character agrees to take care of Ruby, a baby elephant, and discovers the poor treatment of his fellow animals in Exit 8 Big Top Mall. In what 2013 Newbery Award winning book by Katherine Applegate does a silver-backed gorilla use art to protest and get a new home in a zoo?
(THE) ONE AND ONLY IVAN
This poet explored aspects of rural life in "A Patch of Old Snow" and "The Pasture." He set many of his works, including "Mending Wall" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," in nature. Who was this poet of "The Road Not Taken"?
(ROBERT) FROST
This character may have been a Brothers Grimm creation, or he may have descended from a Grim Reaper-like Irish legend. He may also have been inspired by a real Hessian soldier who lost a crucial body part to a cannonball during the Revolutionary War. Identify this spooky rider who terrifies Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
(THE) HEADLESS HORSEMAN
This graphic novel follows seventh grader Jordan Banks' move to a private school called Riverdale Academy Day School. The story is represented through the cartoons Jordan draws about his experience. What graphic novel by Jerry Craft won the 2020 Newbery Award?
NEW KID
This novel's protagonist is a 6th-grade girl who receives notes from a mysterious stranger. Miranda Sinclair discovers that stranger is Marcus, who traveled back in time to save Sal's life. Give the title of this Newbery Medal-winning Rebecca Stead novel.
WHEN YOU REACH ME
This author was from Massachusetts and loosely based her books off of her and her sisters' experiences. What author wrote Jo's Boys, Little Men and Little Women?
(LOUISA MAY) ALCOTT
This poet characterized hope as, quote, "the thing with feathers-- / That perches in the soul." She compared a so-called "Somebody" to a croaking frog in "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Identify this poet of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," who was nicknamed the "Belle of Amherst."
(EMILY) DICKINSON
This Greek root can follow "agora-" or "claustro-." Identify this root that can also be a standalone word for an irrational fear or hatred.
PHOBIA
In this novel, the 10-year-old protagonist accidentally breaks a piece of Min's pottery. The orphan Tree-Ear takes another piece of Min's work to the king's emissary, but thieves break it on the way. 12th-century Korea is the setting of what Newbery-winning novel by Linda Sue Park?
(A) SINGLE SHARD
In this 2021 Newbery Award winning book Lily, with help from her sister and friend Ricky, tries to help her halmoni [hal-mo-nee]. One of the title creatures attempts to make a deal with Lily for her to bring back what her halmoni took from them so that her halmoni would become healthy again. What is this book written by Tae Keller?
WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER
The 1993 Caldecott winning book is about Mirette who is learning to walk across one of these items. The 2004 award went to the book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers and is about Philippe Petit who walked across what item between the World Trade Center Towers in 1974?
TIGHTROPE
This poet made a legendary Native American chief the hero of The Song of Hiawatha. Real colonial people inspired The Courtship of Miles Standish. Name the poet of "Paul Revere's Ride.
(HENRY WADSWORTH) LONGFELLOWâ
This Caldecott-winning book is set in Prague in the 1580s. Its cut-paper illustrations show the title creature, Rabbi Loew's monster made of clay. What is this retelling of a Jewish legend by David Wisniewski [wiz-NESS-key]?
GOLEM [GO-lum]
This author earned a Newbery Honor for his young adult novel Wringer. He won the Newbery Medal for a story of an orphan who befriends Earl Grayson, Mars Bar Thompson, and Amanda Beale. Identify the author of Maniac Magee.
(JERRY) SPINELLI
The title character in this novel runs away with her dog HMS Beagle and meets Miles and Lincoln. In what 2007 Newbery Award winning novel by Susan Patron did the title character realize that Brigitte, her father's ex-wife, wanted to adopt her rather than abandon her?
(THE) HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY
This book follows the journey of a family across the United States in 1869. The book describes the family's interactions with other passengers, workers, and the landscape on the Transcontinental Railroad. By Brian Floca, what book's title is another name for a steam engine train?
LOCOMOTIVE
The narrator of this author's most famous poem attempts to convince himself that the noise he hears is "only this and nothing more." In addition to that poem about a certain visitor at a chamber door, he is the author of The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. Name this author of works such as "Annabel Lee," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Raven."
(EDGAR ALLAN) POE
Believers in this religion pray and perform animal sacrifices to feed and beckon the spirits. It is practiced mostly in West Africa and the Caribbean. Identify this religious practice, associated in pop culture with a namesake doll.
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